• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.396-409
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• 2012

With the proliferation of diverse wireless devices, there is an increasing concern about the security of location information which can be spoofed or disrupted by adversaries. This paper investigates the characterization and detection of location spoofing attacks, specifically those which are attempting to falsify (degrade) the position estimate through signal strength based attacks. Since the physical-layer approach identifies and assesses the security risk of position information based solely on using received signal strength (RSS), it is applicable to nearly any practical wireless network. In this paper, we characterize the impact of signal strength and beamforming attacks on range estimates and the resulting position estimate. It is shown that such attacks can be characterized by a scaling factor that biases the individual range estimators either uniformly or selectively. We then identify the more severe types of attacks, and develop an attack detection approach which does not rely on a priori knowledge (either statistical or environmental). The resulting approach, which exploits the dissimilar behavior of two RSS-based estimators when under attack, is shown to be effective at detecting both types of attacks with the detection rate increasing with the severity of the induced location error.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.157-162
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• 2011

본 연구는 심폐소생술 (CPR) 중 인공호흡의 무선 전송 시스템 구현에 관한 것으로, 병원 전 단계에서의 CPR 성과를 높임으로써 응급환자의 생존율을 높이기 위한 환자-병원간 무선 통신 시스템이다. 기도삽관 기반 호흡기류센서를 적용하여 호흡량을 측정하였는데, 기도삽관을 통한 인공호흡은 기류량의 손실을 최소화하여 보다 정확한 흡기-호기량 계측이 가능하고, 기도-식도 구분을 통해 식도팽창을 방지하여 다른 인공호흡 방법에 비해 장점을 입증하였다. 또, 인공호흡 주요지표인 분당 평균호흡량 (V), 호기말 이산화탄소 농도 ($EtCO_2$), 기도압력 (Ptr)을 디지털화하여 정의하였으며 정의된 데이터를 무선 통신 시스템을 이용하여 전송망의 대역폭 및 지연시간을 확인하였다. 호흡신호를 전송하기 위해 필요한 최대대역폭 (815 Kbps) 에 비해 Wireless LAN의 대역폭 (54 Mbps) 이 충분하여 네트워크 부하는 1.5 % 미만이었으며, 전송지연시간은 0.3 초 이내로 측정되었다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.4296-4301
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• 2011

갠트리 로더(Gantry loader)는 생산설비 자동화의 물류이송에서 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 최근 물류 반송거리가 확대되면서 이동반(Carrier)과 제어반(Controller)의 유선연결로 갠트리 운동의 장해, 주기적 유지보수로 인한 시간 지연 등이 문제점으로 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이동반과 제어반의 연결을 무선화 하여 생산효율을 향상시키고자 갠트리 로더의 기구부를 트롤리 바(Trolley Bar)를 사용하여 개선하고 무선통신 시스템과 모션 제어기 및 제어 프로그램을 제작하여 무선 갠트리 로더 시스템을 개발하였으며 유선 갠트리 시스템과의 비교 평가를 통해 정밀도와 안정성을 확인하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.675-687
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• 2010

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the science and technology of monitoring and assessing the condition of aerospace, civil and mechanical infrastructures using a sensing system integrated into the structure. Impedance-based SHM measures impedance of a structure using a PZT (Lead Zirconate Titanate) patch. This paper presents a low-power wireless autonomous and active SHM node called Autonomous SHM Sensor 2 (ASN-2), which is based on the impedance method. In this study, we incorporated three methods to save power. First, entire data processing is performed on-board, which minimizes radio transmission time. Considering that the radio of a wireless sensor node consumes the highest power among all modules, reduction of the transmission time saves substantial power. Second, a rectangular pulse train is used to excite a PZT patch instead of a sinusoidal wave. This eliminates a digital-to-analog converter and reduces the memory space. Third, ASN-2 senses the phase of the response signal instead of the magnitude. Sensing the phase of the signal eliminates an analog-to-digital converter and Fast Fourier Transform operation, which not only saves power, but also enables us to use a low-end low-power processor. Our SHM sensor node ASN-2 is implemented using a TI MSP430 microcontroller evaluation board. A cluster of ASN-2 nodes forms a wireless network. Each node wakes up at a predetermined interval, such as once in four hours, performs an SHM operation, reports the result to the central node wirelessly, and returns to sleep. The power consumption of our ASN-2 is 0.15 mW during the inactive mode and 18 mW during the active mode. Each SHM operation takes about 13 seconds to consume 236 mJ. When our ASN-2 operates once in every four hours, it is estimated to run for about 2.5 years with two AAA-size batteries ignoring the internal battery leakage.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1059-1066
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• 2011

This paper makes a close inquiry into ill-conditioning that may be occurred in wireless localization of the sensor nodes based on network signals in the wireless sensor network and provides the clue for solving the problem. In order to estimate the location of a node based on the range information calculated using the signal propagation time, LS (Least Squares) method is usually used. The LS method estimates the solution that makes the squared estimation error minimal. When a nonlinear function is used for the wireless localization, ILS (Iterative Least Squares) method is used. The ILS method process the LS method iteratively after linearizing the nonlinear function at the initial nominal point. This method, however, has a problem that the final solution may converge into a LM (Local Minimum) instead of a GM (Global Minimum) according to the deployment of the fixed nodes and the initial nominal point. The conditions that cause the problem are explained and an adaptive method is presented to solve it, in this paper. It can be expected that the stable location solution can be provided in implementation of the wireless localization methods based on the results of this paper.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권5C호
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• pp.472-478
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• 2010

UWB 표준인 IEEE 802.15.3a 채널의 무선 통신 시스템 환경에서 채널에 적합하고 추정 정확도가 우수한 신호 도착 방향(AOA) 매개변수 추정 기반의 실내 무선 위치인식 알고리즘을 위한 평균가중 AOA 추정기법을 제안한다. AOA 매개 변수 추정을 위한 IEEE 802.15.3a 기반의 초광대역 신호 모형을 설정하고, 종래 추정 기법보다 추정 정확도가 우수한 평균가중 기반의 다중신호 분류 기법들을 제안한다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해, IEEE 802.15.3a 채널이 포함한 실내 무선 위치인식 시스템 환경을 구축하고, 제안한 AOA 추정 방식을 통해 종래 방식 보다 우수한 추정 결과를 보인다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.43-52
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• 2014

P-wave characteristic in the human electrocardiogram (ECG) is important in the diagnosis of atrial conduction pathology. In this paper, we measured an ECG signal from patient with cardiovascular disease using one lead ECG electrode system which is based on the wireless cardiac monitoring system. And we detected a P-wave in ECG signal using the complex-valued continuous wavelet transforms (CWT) according to two kinds of patch type electrodes such as an existing narrow patch type electrode and the improved wide patch type electrode presented in this paper. Also, we compared the characteristics in detecting the P-wave in terms of the magnitude and the width of P-waves. From the results of comparison we found that the width and the magnitude of P-wave detected using the wide patch type electrode is improved to be interpreted easier compared to those using the narrow patch type electrode. Furthermore, we have also proven that the complex-valued CWT can be used as a robust detector for P-wave in ECG signal analysis.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.465-474
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• 2014

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is considered to be one of the most important research fields for ubiquitous healthcare (u-healthcare) applications. Healthcare systems combined with WSNs have only been introduced by several pioneering researchers. However, most researchers collect physiological data from medical nodes located at static locations and transmit them within a limited communication range between a base station and the medical nodes. In these healthcare systems, the network link can be easily broken owing to the movement of the object nodes. To overcome this issue, in this study, the fast link exchange minimum cost forwarding (FLE-MCF) routing protocol is proposed. This protocol allows real-time multi-hop communication in a healthcare system based on WSN. The protocol is designed for a multi-hop sensor network to rapidly restore the network link when it is broken. The performance of the proposed FLE-MCF protocol is compared with that of a modified minimum cost forwarding (MMCF) protocol. The FLE-MCF protocol shows a good packet delivery rate from/to a fast moving object in a WSN. The designed wearable platform utilizes an adaptive linear prediction filter to reduce the motion artifacts in the original electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. Two filter algorithms used for baseline drift removal are evaluated to check whether real-time execution is possible on our wearable platform. The experiment results shows that the ECG signal filtered by adaptive linear prediction filter recovers from the distorted ECG signal efficiently.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1295-1302
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 LVQ(Learning Vector Quantization) 네트워크를 이용한 수신 신호 세기(Received Signal Strength Indication) 기반 실내 위치인식 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안한 방식의 유용성을 확인하기 위하여 실험을 수행하였고, 일반적인 삼각측량 방법과 비교하였다. 실험실을 40개의 영역으로 나누고 6개의 고정 노드를 설치하였다. 무선 채널의 대수-정규 경로 손실 모델을 구성하고, 수신 신호 강도를 거리로 변환하였다. 변환한 정보를 LVQ의 입력으로 사용하였다. LVQ 네트워크의 학습을 위해 영역의 인덱스를 목표값으로 설정하였다. 실험을 통해서 최적의 서브클래스 개수를 결정하였고, LVQ 네트워크의 훈련을 통해서는 96%, 테스트를 통해서는 91%의 성능을 확인하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.349-358
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• 2012

Over a wireless sensor network (WSN), accurate localization of sensor nodes is an important factor in enhancing the association between location information and sensory data. There are many research works on the development of a localization algorithm over three-dimensional (3D) space. Recently, the complexity-reduced 3D trilateration localization approach (COLA), simplifying the 3D computational overhead to 2D trilateration, was proposed. The method provides proper accuracy of location, but it has a high computational cost. Considering practical applications over resource constrained devices, it is necessary to strike a balance between accuracy and computational cost. In this paper, we present a novel 3D localization method based on the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values of four anchor nodes, which are deployed in the initial setup process. This method provides accurate location estimation results with a reduced computational cost and a smaller number of anchor nodes.